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Tijuana Border News

TIJUANA  Videos spread through social media purporting to show police misconduct have put some members of the Tijuana police department in an uncomfortable spotlight. Now officers will be recording themselves, using miniature body cameras for the first time to document interactions with the public. Alejandro Lares Valladares, Tijuana’s secretary of public safety, has announced the purchase of 1,300 cameras through a $100,000 contribution from the state’s leading business organizations. ...

San Diego  The FBI is participating in the investigation of a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor who was cited by San Diego police for allegedly installing a camera in a women’s restroom at the San Ysidro patrol station, an FBI spokesman said Thursday. The citation was issued Jan. 9 to Armando Gonzalez following a police investigation, San Diego police Lt. Scott Wahl said Thursday. Gonzalez is accused of peeping with a recording device, Wahl said. ...

IMPERIAL BEACH  Three women and a teenager were taken into custody after illegally entering the United States from Mexico on Jet Skis, federal officials said Monday. The women, ages 18 to 40, and a 15-year-old boy were dropped off north of the Imperial Beach pier by the operators of two personal watercraft, who then fled back toward Mexico, said Payam Tanaomi, spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol. Border Patrol agents saw the Jet Skis ...

A earthquake of 4.9 magnitude shook north central Baja California Sunday and was felt in San Diego. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake occurred at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, in a rural area 52 miles north east of the town of Camalu, and 55 miles southeast of Maneadero, basically between Ensenada and San Felipe. Local media said there were no immediate reports of damage.

TIJUANA  A former Mexican foreign minister, independent presidential candidate, and longtime observer of his country’s public life, Jorge Castañeda Gutman has been both witness and participant in some of Mexico’s most defining moments. Last year’s disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero and its impact on Mexican society is one of those moments, he said during a stop in Tijuana this week. “I see an awakening,” Castañeda said Friday during ...

A study that looks at links between poverty and high-risk behavior among Tijuana sex workers will offer loans to a group of 60 women this year. The dollar amount is small— initially about $200 per participant — and the researchers hope that the women will use the money to launch small businesses and find an additional source of income. The National Institutes of Health is funding the $180,000 study, a randomized control trial led by ...